Haroon Mirza

Born:
1977
Residence:
City Of London, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • Our pick of the best new shows to catch around the world — including new exhibitions Spain, Miami and Chicago

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  • In complexity theory, an attractor is a mathematical representation “of a dynamic (the systemic long-term behavior) that is intrinsic to a system,” and the space it maps out is “the set of all possible states of the system.” “Strange Attractor” at Ballroom Marfa explores the way a group show and individual works can serve as aesthetic attractors, channeling the dynamic and complex present of the Anthropocene.

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  • Haroon Mirza presents an installation highlighting his recent exploration of the perceptual distinctions between noise, sound and light as experienced

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  • The exhibition includes the mobile sculpture Clangors that has never left the family’s collection.

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  • London’s Lisson Gallery has announced that it will open its fifth location and second New York space this April, Nate Freeman of Artnews reports.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Like the weather in early March, in New York, Armory Week is at once thrilling, blustery, exhausting, and it just might make you go numb. There is so much happening, that it’s easy to feel that there’s no way to get a handle on it. By our estimates there are over 650,000 square feet of art fairs alone—that’s like six and a half Manhattan city blocks worth of art—and that doesn’t count the museums, gallery openings or art auctions that you’ve got to make it to. To help you prioritize your to-do list, we have run down some of the essentials of the New York art scene’s spring awakening.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • An artist-led exhibition invading the Swiss mountains with experimental new works specially commissioned for the project. “PROJECT 1049” is a large

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  • Following up on their viral protest outside the MFA Boston, Renoir dissenters gathered outside the Met this past weekend, asserting with signs how much the celebrated artist “sucks at painting” (as per the Instagram account that sparked their movement), among other clever taunts (see: “RENBARF”).

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  • The 13th edition of Frieze London takes place in The Regent’s Park, London from 14–17 October 2015. Frieze London is sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the 12th consecutive year, celebrating a shared commitment to discovery. Unrivaled in quality, range and depth, Frieze London 2015 provides a discerning perspective on contemporary art, utilizing the expertise of leading curators including Nicola Lees (Curator, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana), Clare Lilley (Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park) and Gregor Muir (Executive Director, ICA, London) across its feature sections and program.

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  • The first few months of 2016 are busy for the art market calendar in Asia, with key contemporary art fairs in Singapore and New Delhi in January, foll

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  • Haroon Mirza wins 2015 Calder Prize  

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  • The Museum of Fine Arts Boston announced plans yesterday to cancel “Kimono Wednesdays,” a weekly event in which visitors were encouraged to don kimonos and pose in front of Claude Monet’s “La Japonaise.”

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  • Chelsea has established itself as one of London's most prestigious art and design colleges and over the years has produced an illustrious alumni including Anish Kapoor, Steve McQueen, Haroon Mirza, Mariko Mori, Mike Nelson, Chris Ofili and Mark Wallinger.

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  • Haroon Mirza / hrm199 Ltd at Museum Tinguely in Basel (Switzerland) is an extensive exhibition of work by the London-based artist Haroon Mirza.

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  • In Venice this week for the opening of the Okwui Enwezor-curated 56th Biennale? Don’t neglect the wealth of satellite events, most just a gondola ride away.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation announced Haroon Mirza as the winner of the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2012. The Prize offers a unique

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  • In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes expressive sculptures by British artist Nicola Hicks at Flowers in New York, Apparitions by Ranu Mukherjee that features new textile prints, ink paintings, collage and hybrid films at Wendi Norris Gallery in San Francisco, the exhibition Devouring Books that focuses on European and American books, prints, and drawings from the 15th to the 20th century at the Art Institute of Chicago, a group show inspired by a painting with the same title by Jonathan Monk called Nostalgic for the Future featuring 16 of the gallery's artists at Lisson Gallery in London, and War Is Over! (if you want it) by the famous Yoko Ono at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

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  • If art is something that you want to feel comfortable with in your home, then Haroon Mirza is probably not your man.

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  • Mirza’s contribution to the art prize was a sculptural installation which, according to judges, uses "immediate and surprising sights and sounds"

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  • In a building that has variously been a pub, a factory and offices in Sheffield's Devonshire quarter, 15 young artists have put on a group exhibition.

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  • An audio sculpture named after a mythological Greek island where wailing sirens enticed hapless sailors to a gristly death has won

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  • It does not seem like only a year ago that Haroon Mirza picked up the 2011 Northern Art Prize. Major shows at Lisson Gallery, Camden Arts Centre

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  • Art Sheffield is a biennale and, in the two years since their last campaign, the exuberant team behind the steel city’s Contemporary Art Forum have

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  • There are plenty of strange encounters with exotic creatures in Shezad Dawood's latest films, be they blue-faced sea people or moustachioed silent movie villains. The former are the focus of the British artist's latest offering

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  • Manchester Art Gallery, the Whitworth Art Gallery, The Walker Art Gallery, Victoria Gallery and the Grundy Art Gallery announced their collaborative

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  • In celebration of the reopening of Tate Britain, Tate Etc. invited a selection of artists from around the world to choose a favoured work from

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  • The recipient of the Silver Lion Award at the 54th Venice Biennale and the 2012 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, Haroon Mirza is fascinated

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1977 in London, United Kingdom, Haroon Mirza lives and works in London and Sheffield. Using video, sound and found objects, Mirza creates complex audio-visual installations assembled out of old furniture, electronic equipment and various light sources, ranging from led signboards to Christmas garlands. His work couples and uncouples visual and acoustic material, establishing a series of aesthetic correspondences between different cultural and ideological sources mediated through technological means. Much of Mirza’s practice is engaged in structuring noise into patterns in order to transform the reception of sound from an experience characterized by hearing to one defined by listening. His work Adhãn (2009) translates the opening bars of a Cat Stevens song into a relay that animates different parts of a modular installation: a flickering desk lamp, a glass cube collecting condensation, an old radio tuning in and out and a video loop of a cello extract.

Haroon Mirza has recently presented solo exhibitions at Zurich Art Prize, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2014), The Light Hours, Villa Savoye, Poissy (2014), Mother's Tankstation, Dublin (2010) and A-Foundation, Liverpool (2009). His work has has been shown in numerous exhibitions including Art Sheffield 10, Sheffield (2010), “For the Birds” at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (2010), “The Sheffield Pavilion” at the 11th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul (2009), “Lisson Presents (3)” at Lisson Gallery, London (2009), “Stage Fright” (with Laura Buckly & Dave Maclean) at Rokeby, London (2009), “Contested Ground” at 176, London (2009), “New Contemporaries”, the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, touring to London (2008), “Cabaret Futura” at Cell Project Space, London (2008), “How We May Be”, Late at Tate at Tate Britain, London (2007) and “REGELEI” at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2006). He was short-listed for the Mercury Music & Art Prize (2005) and for the Northern Art Prize (2010).

Haroon Mirza is represented by Lisson Gallery, London. 


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